1839 in music

1839 in music

Events

*Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Franz Schubert's "Great C Major Symphony"

Classical Music

*Johann Nepomuk Hummel - "2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ"
*Josef Lanner - "Amazonen-Galopp"; "Malapou Galop"
*Robert Schumann:
*"Arabesque in C", Op. 18 1839
*"Blumenstück" (Flower Piece) in Db, Op. 19 1839
*"Humoreske in Bb", Op. 20 1839
*4 "Nachtstücke" (Night Pieces), Op. 23 1839
*"Faschingsschwank aus Wien", Op. 26 1839
*"3 Romances", Op. 28 (bb, F#, B)
*Louis Spohr - "Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"
*Frédéric Chopin - "Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"

Opera

*Alexander Dargomyzhsky - "Esmeralda"
*Giuseppe Lillo - "Il conte di Chalais"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio"

Published popular music

* "Kathleen Mavourneen" w. Annie Barry Crawford m. Frederick William Nicholls Crouch

Births

*January 1 - James Ryder Randall, popular songwriter
*January 9 - John Knowles Paine, composer and musicologist
*January 19 - Bohumil Pazdirek
*March 17 - Josef Rheinberger, composer (d. 1901)
*March 19 - Gustav Roguski, composer and teacher of Mieczysław Karłowicz
*March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer
*July 14 - Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist
*August 24 - Eduard Nápravník, composer (d. 1916)
*November 24 - James Warren York, businessman, musical instrument maker

Deaths

*March 7 - Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (b. 1802) (suicide)
*April 20 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
*May 3 - Ferdinando Paer, composer (b. 1771)
*June 8 - Aloysia Weber, operatic soprano (b. c. 1760)
*June 11 - Regina Strinasacchi, violinist (b. c. 1761)
*June 14 - Nicolas Mori, violinist, conductor and music publisher (b. 1796)
*July 10 - Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer (b. 1778)
*September 21 - Gottfried Weber, music theorist (b. 1779)
*December 7 - Jan August Vitásek, composer (b. 1770)


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